Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
Value and Saturation Relationships
A course by Anetta Lukjanova , Visual artist
About the video: Value and Saturation Relationships
Overview
“Can you spot any mistakes in the color relationships? I will help you to analyze your painting and adjust forms and connect everything once again. By the end of the lesson, you will be one step closer to finishing the portrait. ”
In this video lesson Anetta Lukjanova addresses the topic: Value and Saturation Relationships, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture. Learn to build your creative expression and apply it to the process of representational portrait painting .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will fix any mistakes in the value relationships. We will also continue adjusting the forms. Usually, this is a good spot in the process to check if your painting looks chalky. Usually, this means that you might have too much white in your shadows. Check that your shadows have enough saturation when you compare back to the reference. For example, if you look here, you can see a brush stroke in which I have mixed a little bit too much of the white color to the shadow color. As you're checking your saturation relationships, make sure to see if your shadow is dark enough. No...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Oil Portrait Painting: Color and Gesture
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Category
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting, Portrait Drawing

Anetta Lukjanova
A course by Anetta Lukjanova
Annetta Lukjanova is a visual artist specializing in contemporary figurative realism. Drawing from the classically trained old masters of oil painting, her work is technical. However, with digital tools and current subjects, her pieces have a modern edge. She has painted outdoor murals in Finland, Australia, Spain, Norway, and Russia and worked with Sealife Helsinki, mural producers UPEArt and B-murals, musicians Vesta and Jukio Kallio, and Stenograffia and Spraykancontrol Festivals.
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